The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Started: ~19 March 2021
Finished: 11 April 2021
I enjoyed this book; I’d say it’s a great book, but reading has been difficult for me this year; I think I’ve finding 2021 a harder year to read in than I did 2020, which is definitely not what I was expecting. I get distracted after a chapter or two; even the most captivating prose is a slog.
All that said: I still find N.K. Jemisin a joy to read. She paints with words with such skill; often in fantasy there can be a struggle between new concepts in a completely imagined world, and the author trying to ground with visuals from our non-fiction world so they make sense. Jemisin always seems to toe the line precisely. I never have issues imagining the world she’s building for me on the page.
I whole-heartedly recommend checking this first book of N.K. Jemisin’s debut Inheritance trilogy. I will definitely be continuing on with this trilogy… eventually.
2021 Reads:
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Shuri by Nic Stone
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin